Abrego Garcia lawyers seek sanctions on Trump officials over stonewalling, defying court orders

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a judge in Maryland on Thursday to sanction Trump officials with severe fines and other penalties for what they said was an "egregious" defiance of court orders.

The attorneys said the Trump administration misleadingly told a judge for months that it could not retrieve Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, where authorities mistakenly deported him in March. But the administration's decision to return him to the United States to face criminal charges in Tennessee last week proved they had the power all along to bring him back, the attorneys argued. 

"The Government’s defiance has not been subtle," Abrego Garcia's attorneys wrote in court papers. "It has been vocal and sustained and flagrant."

Abrego Garcia's family sued the Trump administration in March after the Salvadoran man, who entered the country illegally around 201...